{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-11-01T07:25:24.866Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"event-information","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"","evidence":"","year":"","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":1,"coverage":{"cases":1,"countries":1,"languages":1,"unknownLocation":0,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":0,"lawsuits":0,"regulatory":0,"minors":0,"coreRelations":1,"contextualRelations":0,"mixedRelations":0,"unknownRelations":0,"relationPending":0,"relationUnknown":0},"countingNote":"Distinct public cases in this selection. People counts apply within individual cases only; cross-case person overlap has not been resolved. No population incidence estimate.","affectedCountNote":"Interpret person counts with affectedCountStatus and the reported effects. Unquantified zeros are placeholders, not a measured zero.","source":"AI incidents","publisher":"NOPE","url":"https://nope.net/incidents","license":"CC BY 4.0"},"incidents":[{"id":"2026-jurilovca-romania-visitors-came-to-borscht-festival-not-held-after-chatgpt-answer","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Peste 10 autocare cu turişti au venit, în acest weekend, la Festivalul Borşului Lipovenesc de Jurilovca, în judeţul Tulcea, deşi evenimentul nu a mai fost organizat în acest an. ... în localitatea noastră au început să sosească autocare cu turişti, dar şi nenumăraţi turişti cu autoturisme personale.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Eugen Ion a menţionat că peste 10 autocare au ajuns în Jurilovca şi au adus turişti care au crezut că vor participa la festival.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The Lipovan Borscht Festival in Jurilovca was not organised in 2026, yet more than ten coaches of tourists and many visitors in private cars arrived for it that weekend, according to the mayor.","causal_attribution":"The mayor's account via his Facebook post, relayed by two broadcasters."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Aceştia au indicat ca sursă de informare inteligenţa artificială. ... oamenii au întrebat inteligența artificială – o interogare către ChatGPT – dacă se ţine festivalul. Şi au primit un răspuns GREŞIT.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Aceştia au indicat ca sursă de informare inteligenţa artificială.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The mayor says visitors who came by car named artificial intelligence as their source, and that, besides social media, one answer his team heard when asking many of them was that people had asked ChatGPT whether the festival was on and received a wrong answer.","causal_attribution":"The mayor's report of what visitors told his team; the visitors are not quoted directly."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"am întrebat Chat GPT dacă anul acesta Festivalul Borşului Lipovenesc de Jurilovca are loc şi am primit, halucinant, răspunsul că da, el se desfăşoară în acest weekend, 4-5 septembrie!","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The mayor says that when the organisers asked ChatGPT whether the festival was taking place this year, it answered that it was being held that weekend.","causal_attribution":"The mayor's own test, made after the arrivals; it shows the kind of answer given, not the answers visitors received."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Primarul localităţii, Eugen Ion, a afirmat că vinovate de această situaţie sunt unele agenţii de turism care au promovat pe reţelele sociale excursii la acest eveniment, dar şi inteligenţa artificială care a susţinut că festivalul are loc în acest weekend.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The mayor also blamed travel agencies that advertised trips to the festival on social media with various dates without checking with the town hall.","causal_attribution":"A contributing cause named by the same source; recorded as counterevidence to a sole AI cause."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"El spune că a întrebat sistemul AI cum a fost posibil, iar inteligența artificială a răsopuns că a fost indusă în eroare de informațiile găsite pe internet. ... Sistemul meu a fost indus în eroare de tacticile de marketing ale unor agenții de turism. Multe platforme creează pagini automate de evenimente ... Eu am procesat aceste pagini comerciale ca pe o confirmare a festivalului","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Digi24 reports that when the mayor asked the AI how this had happened, it replied that it had been misled by travel agencies' automatically created event pages and had treated them as confirmation of the festival.","causal_attribution":"The AI's after-the-fact self-explanation as relayed by the mayor; not an analysis of the visitors' answers."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"El a adăugat că regretă faptul că oameni veniţi din toată ţara în Jurilovca au fost dezamăgiţi când au aflat că festivalul nu mai are loc.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The mayor said he regretted that people who had come from across the country to Jurilovca were disappointed when they learned the festival was not being held.","causal_attribution":"The mayor's description of the visitors' reaction."}],"effects":[{"label":"visitors travelled to a festival that was not being held after a wrong ChatGPT answer (mayor)","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://stirileprotv.ro/stiri/actualitate/peste-10-autocare-au-ajuns-la-jurilovca-pentru-un-festival-care-nu-are-loc-primarul-chatgpt-a-dat-un-raspuns-gresit.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ro","translation_note":"Read in Romanian and translated by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-11-01; no human translator inspected the text. Știrile ProTV report of 6 September 2026 quoting the mayor's Facebook post.","independence_group":"jurilovca-mayor-facebook-post-2026-09"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.digi24.ro/stiri/actualitate/peste-10-autocare-au-mers-in-delta-la-un-festival-de-bors-care-nu-are-loc-cum-au-fost-pacaliti-turistii-de-inteligenta-artificiala-3936887","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ro","translation_note":"Read in Romanian and translated by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-11-01; no human translator inspected the text. Digi24 report of 6 September 2026 quoting the same Facebook post, with the AI's reply to the mayor; same origin as s1.","independence_group":"jurilovca-mayor-facebook-post-2026-09"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["everyday_life"],"unknowns":["How many visitors relied on ChatGPT, and the exact answers they received.","Whether other AI tools or search features were also involved.","Whether any visitor lost money beyond the cost of the trip."],"geography":{"basis":"Both sources place the arrivals in Jurilovca, Tulcea county, Romania. The mayor says the disappointed visitors came from across the country (Romania). No court is involved.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["RO"],"affected_person_countries":["RO"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as the mayor's account, reported by two national broadcasters, that visitors who asked ChatGPT were told a festival was on and travelled to a festival that was not being held; the travel agencies' role and the absence of the visitors' own words are recorded.","reviewed_on":"2026-11-01"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The mayor of Jurilovca says that when his team asked many visitors where their information came from, one answer besides social media was that people had asked ChatGPT whether the festival was on and received a wrong answer, and that ChatGPT told the organisers themselves that the festival was taking place that weekend; the visitors then travelled for a festival that was not held. The visitors' exchanges are not quoted, and travel agencies' advertising also contributed to the arrivals.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"Romanian mayor says visitors who asked ChatGPT came to Jurilovca for a borscht festival that was not being held this year","summary":"On the weekend of 5-6 September 2026 more than ten coaches of tourists and many visitors in private cars arrived in Jurilovca, Tulcea county, Romania, for the Lipovan Borscht Festival, which the commune had not organised this year, according to its mayor, Eugen Ion, in a Facebook post reported by Știrile ProTV and Digi24. The mayor blamed travel agencies that had advertised trips to the festival and also artificial intelligence: he said that when he and his team asked many of the visitors where they had got the false information, the answers included social media and that people had asked ChatGPT whether the festival was on and received a wrong answer, and that when the organisers asked ChatGPT themselves it replied that the festival was taking place that weekend. He said he regretted that people who came from across the country were disappointed.","incidentDate":"2026-09-05","incidentEndDate":"2026-09-06","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"range","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-09-06","aiSystem":"ChatGPT, which according to the mayor of Jurilovca visitors had asked whether the festival was taking place; the mayor says he asked it himself and was told the festival was on that weekend","aiProduct":"ChatGPT (reported)","aiCompany":"OpenAI","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["other_material_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to the mayor, visitors who had asked ChatGPT whether the festival was on travelled to Jurilovca for a festival that was not being held and were disappointed.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"unquantified","affectedCountEvidence":"The mayor says 'foarte mulţi turişti' (very many tourists) came by car and that, besides social media, one answer his team heard when asking many of them was ChatGPT; no number is given. Coach passengers (more than ten coaches) came through travel agencies and are not attributed to ChatGPT. Numeric fields hold zero placeholders.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","jurisdiction":"RO","platformType":"chatbot","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://stirileprotv.ro/stiri/actualitate/peste-10-autocare-au-ajuns-la-jurilovca-pentru-un-festival-care-nu-are-loc-primarul-chatgpt-a-dat-un-raspuns-gresit.html","primarySourceLabel":"Știrile ProTV, 6 Sep 2026: tourists came to Jurilovca for a festival not being held; the mayor says ChatGPT gave a wrong answer","firstPublishedAt":"2026-11-01T03:19:44.032625+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-11-01T03:19:44.032625+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["travel","event-information","wasted-trip","romania"]}]}